Xavier Rogers

2021 BWIF Fellow
Brooklyn College Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema

COUNTERTENOR
Logline: After a young, troubled Black opera singer suffers a catastrophic meltdown at the most renowned school of classical music on earth, he must choose whether to kill his dream in the hopes of healing, or risk his life to reclaim his voice.

Xavier Rogers is a screenwriter and playwright based out of Brooklyn, NY. A native son of Montclair, NJ, he specializes in topical, sociopolitical and culturally illuminating television dramas for cable and streaming- the news is his muse. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Screenwriting at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College (CUNY). Previously, he has been a finalist in the Walt Disney Television Writing Program, WeScreenplay: Diverse Voices and placed in the Top 10 of The Orchard Project Episodic Laboratory. Recent screenplay film credits include: HEIRLOOMS (2020), A STIGMATISM (2021). While completing his BA, he received the Drew University Dramatic Society Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting for his debut stage production, APPLES. Xavier's catalogue aims to mediate a dialogue between the intersectional Black American experience and wherever it is most rejected, least expected and not reflected. He is honored to join Diverso’s inaugural BWiF program.